Yes and ironically there are services like kill the newsletter that will re-RSS your tired ass newsletter.
But anyone cool that uses fulltext RSS gets an auto subscribe from me.
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breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 1 day agoGoogle weirdly gets a lot of credit for killing things that are very much alive and well.
anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.ee 1 day ago
aren’t podcasts still RSS. I’m like 90% sure they are.
Bonus@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I’m following everyone from substack and every other damn resource on RSS. Nothing dead about it. Maybe someone is unhappy with their particular way of accessing it? I’ve used Feedly ever since Google ruined their own reader. Google abandoned a lot of things during that period of innovation.
breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
RSS is the hero that saved us from Spotify (et at.) walling off podcasts behind their paywall.
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 day ago
I don’t think we’ve been saved just yet. Their market share is still growing and they don’t support importing RSS feeds. Nor do they support outgoing video feeds for RSS. And they continue to pay for exclusive partnerships.
breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I don’t think we’re completely saved forever but they tried making podcasts Spotify-exclusive. I remember a bunch of Gimlet podcast hosts being like “please come to Spotify to listen to us – it’s better than it used to be!” They ended up caving because people didn’t listen. Podcasting is built around RSS – even though people aren’t really aware of it – and people expect to get them this way.